Google+ (and my social networking history…)

OK, I admit it -- I'm on Google+.  And I freakin' LOVE it!!!  Am having the best time just playing around on that site, seeing who and what I run across.  If you want to find me there, here is my URL:  https://plus.google.com/113745399994458455981/posts.  Ever since I ditched FB last December, I'd missed that sense of …

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The New Internet Writing “Experts”

Well, I guess this will be my first "rant" of my new blog. Maybe not a rant, but instead just a bitching session.... I've just finally got to speak up about a topic I first noticed popping up online here several years ago, and I've seen this topic and this issue and these people I'm …

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New Poetry at Ray’s Road Review!

Hey poetry lovers: the literary publication for which I am the poetry editor -- Ray's Road Review -- has just published several poems by noted poet and author, Clifton Snider.  Very glad to have him on board.  Please go check his poems out at:  http://raysroadreview.com/poetry-2/clifton-snidor/ and while there, read Val Nieman's poems in the current …

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My New WordPress Page: MY BOOKS – CRAZY PRICES

Today I created and published a new themed tab -- a WordPress "Page" -- that I titled MY BOOKS - CRAZY PRICES. This page is about what I found some of my old published but now out of print books are selling for online, on places like Amazon and Alibris. I was surprised to a …

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The Best Contemporary Confessional Poetry Books

Just because I want to kick start this blog off and get some content out there, and even though I've got some topics in mind I want to write about, my time is quite limited these days, so this post will actually be stolen from an Amazon.com list I put together earlier this year. I …

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